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Spiraxidae
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Spiraxidae

Spiraxidae is a family of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the superfamily Testacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Euglandininae

subfamilyEuglandininae

Streptostylinae

subfamilyStreptostylinae

Spiraxinae

subfamilySpiraxinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 121013.